The jury's advantage in seeing and hearing a witness give evidence is diminished where the evidence is given through a translator and parts of the same answers are internally inconsistent. Where the Crown case depends entirely on a single accomplice witness whose credibility is fundamentally undermined by internal inconsistencies, drug use, motives to lie, and language difficulties, and there is no objective evidence linking the accused to the offences, a conviction will be quashed as unreasonable.
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